"If a newspaper claimed to have documents showing that, say, John Kerry had fabricated details of his service in Vietnam, and Kerry made no comment whatsoever, would you not consider that fairly telling?"
Apparently you aren't paying attention.
Try this on a Google search. (without the quotes)
"blair/bush deny downing street memos"
"Apparently you aren't paying attention.
Try this on a Google search. (without the quotes)
"blair/bush deny downing street memos" "
Err I did. Nothing on a news search (although I've been watching the news anyway and I'm pretty sure they'd have reported if Tony Blair had made a statement on this today.
On a normal google search I get lots of matches for the words which seem to deal with the original memo, rather than these new ones. None of them deny the actual existence of the memo of course, exactly the opposite, the first match has a quote from Tony Blair referring to the time that it was written:
"Q: Thank you, sir. On Iraq, the so-called "Downing Street Memo" from July 2002, says, "Intelligence and facts remain fixed around the policy of removing Saddam through military actions." Is this an accurate reflection of what happened? Could both of you respond?
BLAIR: Well, I can respond to that very easily. No, the facts were not being fixed in any shape or form at all. And let me remind you that that memorandum was written before we then went to the United Nations."